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Cambridge researchers are advancing understanding of mental illness and wellbeing – and putting this into practice.

Faces in the Crowd

With the people, for the people: applying mental health research

21 May 2012

From campus to community, the worlds of mental health research and medical practice are being brought together by a collaboration involving...

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Squeaky Gate

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

09 May 2012

Cambridge neuroscientists will be among the members of an innovative educational charity joining a Pink Floyd tribute band to celebrate the...

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Staff counselling.

Feeling better for longer

26 Mar 2012

Research into the effectiveness of staff counselling reveals that workplace support can have a striking and sustained effect for employees with...

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Fitzwarren Street, Langworthy

Cambridge study charts the past to anticipate the future

22 Mar 2012

A new Cambridge-led study has examined the past 60 years of incidence data on psychotic disorders in England in the hope that the data can reveal...

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Numb.

The next decade of mental health drugs

15 Mar 2012

Academics advocate for changes to how we development better treatments for mental health.

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The team that created Inside an Unquiet Mind

Scientists: they are surprisingly normal

13 Jan 2012

One in four of us suffer from mental illness at some point in our lives – but the stigma surrounding mental health has proved hard to shift. An...

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#twitterbrain network image

Neuro-tweets: #hashtagging the brain

06 May 2011

We like to think the human brain is special, something different from other brains and information processing systems, but a Cambridge professor set...

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I love peas

Happy children make happy adults

14 Mar 2011

New research links well-being in adolescence with life satisfaction in adulthood.

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Soldiers set up security and provide aid in Haiti

Academic warns of psychological impact of Haiti earthquake

21 Jan 2010

A Cambridge academic who is coordinating the mental health response to the Haiti earthquake disaster for one of the first international NGOs into the...

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